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The Island (1973) Athol Fugard

A Quick Rundown of The Island

- The Island is a Fugard play that resorts to the Classics to protest Apartheid.
- It takes place in four scenes, opening with a lengthy mimed sequence in which John and Winston, two cell mates in prison on Robben Island, carry out one of the totally pointless and exhausting tasks designed by warders to break the spirit of political prisoners.
- Winston has been sentenced to prison for life because he burned his passbook in front of a police station.
- John has been imprisoned for belonging to a banned organization.
- The story traces the relationship of these two men. Winston is the active rebel,
- and John, the intellectual, is trying to persuade him to play Antigone in a condensed
- two-character version of Sophocles’ play.
- It is to be a prison “concert” for their fellow prisoners and the guards.
- However, Winston rebels at playing Antigone. He doesn’t want the other prisoners to laugh at......

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Approximate Pages: 9 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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